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i used to believe that Chicken McNuggets come from baby chickens.

Micky D =)

My gran always told me to 'go easy on the tomato ketchup, because I'm not buying any more', this made me think she was going to die when the bottle was empty, and subsequently made me feel very guilty whenever I put it on my food - in very small amounts.

I realise now she was fibbing, since she lived 'till I was 40!

Lynne

I believed mustard was a mineral, like salt. On a preschool field trip, one of the parents was talking about a mustard plant. I was very insulted that he thought I would be dopey enough to believe in that. And he wouldn't give in! Yeah, right--and candy canes sprout out of the ground.

Siobhan

When I was little I demanded sugar on my cereal. My dad told me that someday I'd be eating my cereal without it and I thought that he meant it would one day become illegal to sprinkle table sugar on rice krispies. What he actually meant was that when I got older my tastes might change and I might actually like unsweetened cereal. I lived in fear of the day that I could be arrested for adding sugar to my cereal.

Anon

When we went out to a Chinese or Japanese restaurant, my uncle would always order fillet mignon. Well, I always misheard it as "Flaming Yon". I assumed it was some kind of super spicy Asian dish... It wasn't until recently that I learned it was merely steak.

Anon

when i was little some stupid kid at schoold told me that kiwi's were monkey butts and sure enough i beleived it and didn't have another for along time!

carly

I was always puzzled by jars of jam that said "extra jam" on the label. I thought it meant that there was more jam in the jar than there would be otherwise. Either it was a slightly bigger jar containing a little bit extra for free, like they often do, or they had managed to fit more into a normal sized jar.

Alan, Sheffield

when I was around 4 -5 I once asked my mum how she knew when boiled eggs where cooked and she told me the eggs shout "get me out get me out im done" but you had to be a grown up to hear them,and for years I used to listen see if I Could hear them! she obviously knew when I got old enough to hear them Id know she lied :)

Catherine

A few years ago, my friend got tired of her little sister eating all the ice cream sandwiches so she convinced her that they were made out of llamas. She refused to eat them and would cry whenever my friend would take one out of the freezer and would exclaim, "Those poor llamas!"

amanda. [3

I was about 16 years old before I saw a real live tuna fish. Until then I believed they were about the size of bait fish, and that they were peeled with tweezers. Hence, the small can!!

Sara

As a kid I used to think the free "continental breakfast" offered at hotels was supposed to be a really big fancy breakfast, because "Continental" was the name of a big fancy car at the time.

Brandon Campbell

My wife gets a real kick out of this, when I was young I believed that if you ate frozen bread you would get worms. She uses frozen bread to cool soup for the kids.

Tim

My brother told me once, while looking for snacks in the kitchen, that they make rain coats out of apple skin because of its water-resistance property. Although never quite believing him fully, I still think about that statement EVERY time I eat an apple.

Sophia

When I was 6 years old I used to love honey, on toast or by itself. Then one day my sister told me that if I ate any more honey I would turn into a bee, because she could see a stripe on my nose. I got really scared and started crying.
Now I know that there was never any stripe and that I could eat as much honey as I want and I wouldn't turn into a bee, but I've gone off it now.

Eva

When I was a kid, I used to believe that cadbury cream eggs real uncooked eggs in the middle

Anon

Ever since I was 8, i never ate chili because i thought it ws cold.

James

I always thought that cereal characters were all real people. So I thought serial killers were people that went around killing Captain Crunch and Tony the Tiger.

Anon

I believed that the ice cream truck was actually a music man who sold cassette tapes because that is what my parents told me in order to not have to buy me icecream everytime it came.

Alicia

I used to believe that there were people who wanted to steal my food, because I was only ever told that there were "people in the world who wanted my food" when I didn't finish all of it, but I was never told why.

Troy

I used to believe that made from scratch meant that the baker would scratch a cutting board with their fingernail and little bits of white powder would appear. This was where the flour came from to make something from scratch. No wonder bread "made from scratch" were revered!

David S. Theil